smatterer

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If the question were, What is the best mode of securing good government in Europe? the merest smatterer in politics would answer, representative institutions.

From Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Too vast a subject, ma'am," he said, "for a smatterer like me.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

"But she's trivial, a smatterer, a decadent—" "And handsome," laughed Ballard.

From Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment by Gibbs, George

Walpole described 'Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk' as 'a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.'

From George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends by Shorter, Clement King

Walpole described “Mr. Fenn of East Dereham in Norfolk” as “a smatterer in antiquity, but a very good sort of man.”

From The Life of George Borrow by Shorter, Clement K.